It is said to be a rundown temple, but in fact the conditions inside are pretty good. Although it is very simple, it also has a sense of elegance and leisure. It seems that although Oda Nobunaga was so angry at Aichi, he still felt sorry for his sister in his heart, and Yu
Qiuping just got the benefit of the doubt. If Ashi hadn't come along to plead guilty, Yu Qiuping might have been imprisoned in the dungeon.
In the imprisoned temple, Yu Qiuping was sitting on the bed in front of the window. The books in front of him seemed a little boring, so he turned to look into the garden. The landscape in the garden was ordinary, but there was a rare flower.
Decorate in between.
Ah Shi noticed Yu Qiuping's gaze, pushed the messy hair behind his ears, and turned his head to look. The cold charm exuding from his movements was indescribable in any words.
When Yu Qiuping saw Ah Shi looking at him, he waved to her sheepishly, and then turned his head to read a book. However, Ah Shi was stunned for a moment, and his eyes were looking in the direction of Yu Qiuping.
.
The scene just now was so familiar that it aroused memories that had long since sunk into the abyss in her mind. She didn't know why she was so sensitive to that short moment - but she vaguely remembered that in the garden of Xiaogu City,
He was also among the flowers, while Asai Nagamasa was sitting in the house and peeking at him. When he was discovered, he waved sheepishly like this, and then continued reading.
That movement, that smile, that expression, all seem to be exactly the same.
Ah Shi rubbed his temples with some frustration, wondering why he had such a strange association. Could it be because this is Omi, is it close to Xiaodani City... His heart was empty, there was nothing left, it seemed that everything
As the fire in Otani Castle burned to the ground.
"Don't catch a cold."
At some point, Yu Qiuping appeared behind him and put a coat on Ah Shi's behalf.
Yu Qiuping was a little surprised to see Ah Shi suddenly cry.
Because she only realized now that her heart was not empty.
When the seasons changed from spring to summer, Aichi fell ill, and his illness was serious. The continuous fever made Yu Qiuping panic. Oda Nobunaga had no intention of sending anyone to take care of Ashi, but only sent herbal medicine to Yu Qiuping.
Qiuping played the role of a maid, taking care of Ah Shi who was resting in bed.
"Brother Hongye, it doesn't have to be like this. What should I do if I infect you?"
Ah Shi looked at Yu Qiuping, who was sitting at the head of his bed, washing a towel in the basin, and reminded him again uneasily.
"It's okay, I'm full of antibodies and I'm not afraid of anything." Yu Qiuping always used weird pronunciation to excuse himself. Ah Shi couldn't understand it, but he always found it interesting.
"Your voice is so weak. Talk less and have a good rest." Yu Qiuping probed the temperature of Ashi's forehead with his hand, looked at her haggard look with some worry, and put a wrung-out towel on it.
Her forehead. Then she ran out quickly and came back soon with a bowl of medicine.
"This is the new herbal medicine given by the guard. It is said to be very effective." Yu Qiuping kept stirring the bowl with a spoon, then took a spoonful of the black medicinal soup and blew it gently a few times. Ah Shi sat down with some reluctance.
Standing up, Yu Qiuping hurriedly put down the bowl upon seeing this, and helped Ah Shi adjust the pillow behind her so that she could lean on it and start working.
"Brother Hongye." Yu Qiuping's meticulous care made Ah Shi's eyes turn red.
"What's wrong?" Yu Qiuping
Turning around, he found that Ah Shi's eyes were red, "Do you have a headache?"
Ah Shi shook his head and squeezed out a smile.
"Don't be brave, take the medicine quickly." Yu Qiuping scooped up another spoonful of medicine, blew on it again, and brought the spoon to Ashina's red lips, which had lost some color due to illness.
"I can just do it myself." Ah Shi stretched out his hand to take the medicine bowl, "Brother Hongye doesn't need to feed me like this."
"You are a patient, and the patient should just lie down and don't move around." Yu Qiuping pretended to scold harshly. Ashi's eyes became redder when she heard this, but she also put down her hand. She sniffed slightly, and then put her mouth to it.
She came up and drank the spoonful of medicine. Then she immediately closed her eyes and frowned.
"What's wrong? Is it very painful?" Yu Qiuping was a little surprised.
"Yeah." Ah Shi nodded slightly, and suddenly, like a willful little girl, he said angrily and coquettishly, "I don't want to drink anymore."
After Ah Shi said what he said, he was surprised that he could talk to Yu Qiuping in such a tone.
"Is it bitter?" Yu Qiuping felt as if he was facing an enemy when he heard this. He carefully scooped up a little bit, tasted it with the tip of his tongue, and then frowned, "It seems to be quite bitter."
Then, he immediately put down the bowl and ran out in a hurry. When he came back, he found that Ah Shi had finished the medicine by himself.
"What's going on? I asked you not to move around." Yu Qiuping glanced at Ah Shi complainingly, and a playful smile appeared on the corner of Ah Shi's mouth.
"What's in your hand?" Ah Shi noticed the small bag Yu Qiuping hid behind his back.
Yu Qiuping handed over the bag like a child who was caught doing bad things. Ah Shi took it and found that it contained candy.
"How can you drink medicine with sugar?" Ah Shi rolled his eyes at Yu Qiuping angrily and amusedly, and scolded, "Fool."
However, the wave of memories suddenly surged over, almost drowning Ashi. She was stunned for a moment - because she vaguely remembered that when Nagamasa Asai took care of her many years ago, she also secretly took medicine because she disliked the bitterness of the medicine.
I wanted to add sugar to the medicine, but I discovered it myself.
At that time, I sweetly called him a "fool".
The trivial days passed day by day, but it was quite pleasant.
During dinner in the evening, Yu Qiuping wrote down a date on the paper again.
Oda Nobunaga's house arrest was a solid one. Except for three meals a day and some books delivered by people from the Oda family, Yu Qiuping and Aichi had no contact with the outside world. Yu Qiuping had no idea what was happening outside.
What, I don’t even know what day it is today - Oda Nobunaga didn’t even give him a calendar. After realizing this, Yu Qiupei began to count the time he was under house arrest, but he probably remembered the wrong number of days. Today is about
It was August 20, the seventh year of Tianzheng (1579). Li Yu Qiuping had been under house arrest for almost seven months. It has been such a long time, what happened outside? Are Feng'er, Shang'er and the others okay? Yu Qiu
Is your home okay? Is there a war?
Just when Yu Qiuping was thinking about this, he suddenly realized that Ah Shi in front of him had hardly touched the food. Yu Qiuping's appetite has always been very good after being under house arrest, because he was either reading or practicing swordsmanship every day - there was nothing else to do anyway.
After all, it was quite tiring. He finished his portion early, but he barely took a few bites of the portion in front of Ah Shi.
"What's wrong, Ah Shi?" Yu Qiuping asked with a frown.
He said, "Have a bad appetite?"
"Brother Hongye..." Ah Shi bit his lip, then sighed slightly and said, "I think of Xiaogucheng again..."
"Oh...yeah." Yu Qiuping also sighed after hearing this. From the time Ashi first came to the temple near Omi Otani City, she had been a little depressed. Yu Qiuping understood that Ashi had grown from the grief of losing her husband.
It's not easy to come out, and it will definitely be uncomfortable for her to go back to the sad place. In the past few months, he has been chatting with Ah Shi, and it seems that her mood is gradually getting better, but today it is bad again.
"I don't know what's going on outside." Ah Shi's mood more or less affected Yu Qiuping, making him also feel worried. However, his worried mood was not brought to his bed - because he had recently been
made new discoveries.
The past seven months have been the most leisurely time for him since he came to this Warring States era. He couldn't do anything, so he didn't have to do anything. Sometimes when he felt really bored, he would lie in bed and meditate, letting his thoughts wander -
—And then I discovered something incredible.
It was about three weeks after he tried to meditate that he entered a strange half-reality and half-dream scene in a half-asleep and half-awake state, which he often experienced in his dreams.
The first time I had such a dream was about the burning of Odani Castle Castle, the second time was about the revolving door after being assassinated by Hosokawa Shinyuki, the third time was about being drunk in Akechi Mitsuhide's dormitory, and the fourth time was about
The brief scene when I met Imagawa's true self may not be considered a dream this time, but just a distraction. The things presented in these dreams are different, but they have one thing in common - Yu Qiuping can feel the existence of his body, but
But he was tied up, and at this time, there was a steady stream of heat coming from the back of his head.
When Yu Qiu was lying on the bed, he unexpectedly entered a similar scene for the first time while half asleep and half awake. When he felt the heat on his tied body and the back of his head, he was startled.
The boy perked up. By the time he realized what had just happened, a cold sweat broke out on his back.
The next day, Yu Qiuping entered that space again while meditating, but he woke up again to a pleasant surprise. After that, no matter how he experimented, he could never enter again.
But after he continued to meditate for a month, he gradually found the trick. That was to empty his body and mind and think about nothing. It is really difficult to think about nothing, because thinking about "thinking about nothing" is also a kind of thought in itself.
.But if you really succeed in letting yourself go, it is easy to fall asleep immediately and there is no way to enter that scene. Therefore, he may only be able to enter that scene by chance after trying several times, and then he will soon fall asleep again.
Came out because of mood swings.
However, he has gradually fallen in love with this feeling of exploring mysteries. He didn't know what the scene he entered was, but it was full of mystery. He even had a conjecture: Could it be that these Buddhists were enlightened and saw through the world of mortals?
Place? So, he would try to meditate every night.
Today was no exception. Even though Ah Shi's mood made Yu Qiuping a little worried, as soon as he lay down on the bed, he folded his hands on his lower abdomen in a routine manner and brought his legs together naturally - this was the easiest thing for him to experiment with.
A posture to enter into for meditation.
Yu Qiuping slowly adjusted his breathing, allowing the ups and downs of his chest and abdomen to gradually calm down. Then, he felt that his consciousness began to become drowsy, his control and awareness of various parts of his body gradually weakened, and his concept of time also became
Vague.
Chapter completed!